“ The graffer stakes claims to boarded-up buildings that others perceive as wastelands .” has been found on the walls of Pompeii . My text-art pieces , primarily digital photo-collages , draw from the traditions of urban landscape photography , collage , mural , and graffiti art . I usually begin with a photo I ’ ve taken . Then I digitally add other images I ’ ve generated , e . g ., black and white images photo-copied out of 1930 ’ s sixth-grade textbooks . I ’ m interested in the urban landscape as a kind of frontier and the graffer as a pioneer . The graffer stakes claims to boarded-up buildings that others perceive as wastelands .”
“ Dead to the world ” doesn ’ t mean dead
, nor the world you think .
“ The graffer stakes claims to boarded-up buildings that others perceive as wastelands .” has been found on the walls of Pompeii . My text-art pieces , primarily digital photo-collages , draw from the traditions of urban landscape photography , collage , mural , and graffiti art . I usually begin with a photo I ’ ve taken . Then I digitally add other images I ’ ve generated , e . g ., black and white images photo-copied out of 1930 ’ s sixth-grade textbooks . I ’ m interested in the urban landscape as a kind of frontier and the graffer as a pioneer . The graffer stakes claims to boarded-up buildings that others perceive as wastelands .”
Meanwhile , Nance Van Winckel has staked her claim in literature , as well . Having written in different genres , I inquired does one come easier than others ? Is poetry easier than fiction or fiction easier than pho-toems ?
“ Each is so different , which is one reason I tend to move between genres . When I return to fiction after working on poems , the work feels refreshed somehow , made new again . The same is true when I ’ ve been away from poetry , although I never stay away long from poetry . It ’ s home base . The pho-toem work allows me to bring my poetry practice — in a muchcompressed manner — to the visual realm . My husband , Rik Nelson ( known in the Spokane area as the Bottlecap Fish Man ), is a working visual artist who ’ s been an immense help to me in learning about composition and design ,
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